News 2023

Géant features an interview with our colleague Sven Ubik in their magazine CONNECT, discussing the MVTP technology for low-latency transmissions, for which his team received the Czech Head award. Read it on page 27.  

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we interviewed our colleague and scientist, Elisabeth Andriantsarazo. Are you interested in how secure quantum communication works or how Elisabeth got into science? You can find out in our video. And to all women, we wish you a wonderful day!

The organizers of this year’s community meeting for administrators of Czech and Slovak networks, CSNOG 2023, have announced the Call for Abstracts today. Interested individuals can submit contributions focused on network management, infrastructure, or security through the website until March 31st.  

Colleagues from the Forensic Laboratory are once again presenting the elaborate training Forensic Training II. on March 9-10, 2023. In this training, you will learn the necessary principles and procedures and try them out in practical "hands-on" exercises. After the theoretical introduction, procedures for securing documents, analysis of flows in networks and analysis of partial and full traffic records await you. We currently have the last vacancies. Log in here.

In 2022, a total of 6,400,000,000 (6.4 billion) eduroam authentications were recorded worldwide. This represents a 70% increase compared to 2021. After a slowdown during the COVID years, the situation is improving. Currently, eduroam is utilized by the academic and scientific community at 35,856 locations in 103 countries around the world. In the Czech Republic, it is possible to connect to a wireless network at 1,150 locations, particularly in schools, research organizations, and even at train stations. In 2022, a total of 37.8 million individual user accesses were recorded. More information

The fifth meeting of network administrators from the Czech Republic and Slovakia – CSNOG 2023 – will be held on May 16th and 17th this year. It will take place in one of the regional cities in Moravia. Further information regarding the venue will be announced in the following weeks. The CSNOG community’s mission is to facilitate the sharing of experiences and practical solutions aimed at improving the quality of Czech and Slovak networks.